Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — BRITISH PLEA IS DEFENDED [ARTICLE]

BRITISH PLEA IS DEFENDED

Senators Root and Burton Talk Against Granting American Ships Free Canal Tolls. Washington, July 16. —The advocates of the British of the Panama canal question unlimbered their big guns in the senate. For two hours Senators Roqt and Burton spoke against the American proposition to grant American ships the use of the canal free of tolls and argued that a law of this kind would be in violation of the terms and the spirit of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Questions asked during the discussion Indicated that Senators Cummins, Smoot, Townsend and Bristow favored free tolls and Senators Williams, McCumber, Bacon and Hoke Smith in addition to the two senators who spoke, favored an absolutely free waterway.